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Opera 9 preview available
by Marc Perton Oct 21st 2005 at 10:30AM
It looks like going free hasn't hurt Opera Software's ability to innovate. The company has just rolled out the first "technology preview" (we'll call it an alpha, even if they won't) of Opera 9.0, which includes a raft of new features, such as an improved popup blocker, a Firefox-like opera:config screen to access configuration choices, better support for emerging standards like AJAX, and better HTML rendering, including improved Acid2 rendering. The preview is available for Windows, Linux, Unix and Macs. 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
